Saiga Antelope

The saiga antelope is now critically endangered, and they originally inhabited the Eurasian steppe. They were in Beringian (the bounded by the Lena River, Mackenzie River, the Chucki Sea, and the Kamchatka Peninsula) during the Pleistocene era.

Their population drastically reduced after they were hunted extensively in Moldova and Romania to the point of extinction. The remaining population is also at the brink of extinction after a bacterial infection experienced in 2015 wiped 60% of saiga. In early 2017 goat plague was identified as the etiology that caused a significant loss of the saiga population in Mongolia.